The Urgency of Biodiversity Action

Biodiversity is declining rapidly due to human activities. Urgent action is needed to stem terrestrial biodiversity loss before it becomes much more costly and much less feasible to address. This report provides analysis which estimates relative cost, biodiversity intactness and species extinctions between ‘immediate’ and ‘delayed-action’ scenarios, each of which reaches a similar biodiversity outcome by 2050. In the immediateaction scenario, the global community acts now to stabilise biodiversity intactness at current levels by 2050.